Download or read book American Business Involvement in Defense Conversion in the Former Soviet Union written by Margaret Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Conversion written by Jacques S. Gansler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S. economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. Author of two widely-read books on the defense industry, Jacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S. economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. He defines the challenges, especially the influence of old-line defense interests, and presents examples of restructuring. Gansler discusses growing foreign involvement, lessons of prior industrial conversions, the best structure for the next century, current barriers to integration, a three-part transformation strategy, the role of technological leadership, and the critical workforce. He concludes by outlining sixteen specific actions for achieving civil/military integration. In Gansler's view, the end of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union represents a permanent downturn rather than a cyclical decline in the defense budget. He argues that this critical transition period requires a restructuring of the defense acquisitions process to achieve a balance between economic concerns and national security, while maintaining a force size and equipment modernization capable of deterring future conflicts. Gansler argues that for the defense industry to survive and thrive, the government must make its acquisitions process more flexible, specifically by lowering barriers to integration. This includes, among other things, rethinking the production specifications for new equipment and changing bids for contracts from a cost basis to a price basis. Gansler point out that by making primarily political and procedural changes (rather than legislative ones), companies will be able to produce technology for both civilian and military markets, instead of exclusively for one or the other as has been the norm. This dual-use approach would save the government billions of dollars annually and would enable the military to diversify by utilizing state-of-the-art.

Download or read book Conversion of the Defense Industry in the Former Soviet Union written by Thierry Malleret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the process of conversion from military to civilian production in the USSR since 1988. The author analyzes the economic and technological structure in which conversion operates, reviews the history of conversion and why it has not succeeded - taking into account the recent disintegration of the USSR - and suggests practical measures to be implemented in a genuine shift from military to civilian production.

Download or read book Defense Conversion in the States of the Former Soviet Union written by David Icikson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book After the Cold War written by Michael P. Claudon and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1988, President Gorbachev announced at the United Nations that the Soviet Union would unilaterally cut 500,000 troops from its military forces and begin conversion of its military-industrial complex, which dominates its economy. Since that formal declaration four years ago, the breakup of the East Bloc and the Soviet Union has dramatically changed and improved East-West relations. But the initial optimism at the "end" of the Cold War has now been replaced with the realization that building new economic, political, and military relationships will test the good will, patience, and creativity of both sides. Nowhere are the issues thornier and the potential rewards greater than in defense conversion in Russia. The pervasiveness of their military-industrial complex dwarfs that of the United States: one of five workers is employed by the defense industry; defense enterprises are the sole employers in half their communities; many consumer goods are produced only by defense industries; 80 percent of all research and development was devoted to defense; arms sales in the 1980s mainly to Third World countries were Russia's largest source of hard currency. In short, defense budgets have bankrupted Russia and distorted investment and production for decades. Russia's fledgling free-market economic reforms cannot succeed without the conversion and privatization of much of this military-industrial complex. But to date, there has been little progress, and Russia's conversion programs are long on intent and short on specifics. After the Cold War - Russian-American Defense Conversion for Economic Renewal contains papers presented at the Geonomics Institute fall 1992 seminar on defense conversion and examines some of the questions and policy choices that both countries face in defense conversion and economic restructuring. Where, for example, will a destitute Russian government find the billions of dollars that conversion will require? A smaller, stable military-industrial complex and a vibrant market economy that provides new jobs producing consumer goods is clearly in the interest of the West. How, for example, can Western public and private institutions best assist Russia in creating a legal and business infrastructure conducive to the development of a market economy and foreign investment? In adopting the Bread Loaf Charter, seminar participants proposed a series of recommendations to promote U.S.-Russian cooperation and to accelerate conversion. After the Cold War makes clear that defense conversion in Russia will require strong domestic leadership but also cooperation, technical help, and especially leadership from the United States.

Download or read book Moscow DMZ The Story of the International Effort to Convert Russian Weapons Science to Peaceful Purposes written by Glenn E. Schweitzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, reports began to reach the West about agents "shopping" for weapons systems - and weapons scientists - in the beleaguered Soviet military-industrial complex. In response, the United States, the European Community, and Japan, in cooperation with the Russian government, created a program to reemploy Soviet scientific personnel in civilian projects dealing with the legacy of the Soviet system - a polluted environment, unsafe nuclear power facilities, and economic underdevelopment. In this fascinating first-person account, the American environmental scientist who led the effort to establish the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow tells the diplomatic, scientific, and human story behind a remarkable post-Cold War conversion initiative.

Download or read book Russian Defense Business Directory written by Franklin J. Carvalho and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on opportunities for Amer. firms to access bus. opportunities in the defense in St. Petersburg & the surrounding Leningrad Oblast. Provides a wealth of info. to promote trade, invest., & free market know-how necessary to help speed Russia's transition to a market economy. Includes listings & profiles of bus. enterprises in the focus area, as well as info. on U.S. & Russian export controls, investing in Russian defense conversion, recent bilateral agreements, financing sources, mrkt. research & transport. services, a directory of bus. services, defense conversion success stories, bus. practices, safety & security.

Download or read book Russian Defense Business Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preventing Chaos in the Former Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies written by Patt Leonard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 1645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.

Download or read book Current Developments in the Former Soviet Union written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Joint Hearing on Aid to the Former Soviet Union written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Former Soviet Union in Transition written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade and Investment Between the United States and Russia Commonwealth of Independent States CIS written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of Secretary of Defense to the Congress on the FY Budget FY Authorization Request and FY Defense Programs written by United States. Dept. of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Diplomatic Record 1992 1993 written by Allan Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diplomatic Record continues in its fourth year to offer the most comprehensive storehouse of current information available on international diplomatic relations, including a look ahead to ongoing negotiations, a chronology of diplomatic events for the year and a bibliography of current diplomacy-related publications. At the heart of every editi